{"id":458,"date":"2011-07-28T04:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T04:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/?p=458"},"modified":"2015-10-11T06:27:55","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T04:27:55","slug":"a-running-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/2011\/07\/28\/a-running-week\/","title":{"rendered":"A running week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Friday<\/strong> cold wind howling, rest day<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday, <\/strong>just feel tired, cold wind howling, wimp the run<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday,<\/strong> still tired, cold wind howling, not normally a running day<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday,<\/strong> I understand that my recovery from Comrades is not yet complete, though my legs are getting perky. Wind cold still howling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday,<\/strong> no wind and a perfect light, lusty 8 km, filled with numbers of running. A maths complicated to symbolise but easy to do: 4 with overlays of 4 and 2 deliver 8, 20, 1 like this :\u00a04 days no running, no moon, empty streets; 4 days wind chill, warm bed, fuller dreams; 2 days bouncy legs, glinty eyes, itchy feet. Morning coffee always rich. This a.m.&#8217;s 8k stirred up my running residue, polished it in the moon. Then 20 min to delight in its starlit glitter; puffing it up again with sips of coffee. 1 perfect run, you see.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday<\/strong>, habit recovery day after a run, an indulgence and rememberance day.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday<\/strong>: Yes! Rain on roof. Rummage for technical gear. Not wimping this one. Like a surfer into storm-big waves. Fetch in the last of the kids toys and visitors\u2019 walking shoes Run, winter is come. And gone. Sweat-wet isn\u2019t rain-soak. Even Venus looked through a gap in the clouds. Yet nicely, back at the gate, thumb hesitated over the remote. Maybe another 8k loop? Yes! Not really.<\/p>\n<p>And still there&#8217;s Friday to come<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday cold wind howling, rest day Saturday, just feel tired, cold wind howling, wimp the run Sunday, still tired, cold wind howling, not normally a running day Monday, I understand that my recovery from Comrades is not yet complete, though my legs are getting perky. Wind cold still howling. Tuesday, no wind and a perfect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,108,109,6],"tags":[10,15,105,36],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comrades-2011","category-comrades-2012","category-running-experiences","category-running-shorts","tag-comrades","tag-marathon","tag-recovery","tag-venus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1077,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions\/1077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/ultimatecomrades\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}